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...Costa Rican tourist, was staying in Room 930. "It started to shake," she said. "We ran out of the room. We ran down the stairs and we ran and ran. The building was falling all around us. Rocks were falling on us. My roommate fell and her pajamas were torn off, but we kept on running. Now there is nothing there, where we were. Nothing." The hotel's top two floors had collapsed, spewing debris onto the boulevard below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Noise Like Thunder | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...Globe wrote that unless Bok revises Harvard's investment policy in companies doing business in racially torn South Africa, students will respond that Harvard is a "tacit supporter of apartheid" and will escalate protest activities as they did this past spring...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: University Asks Globe To Clarify Editorial | 8/9/1985 | See Source »

...group of law students organized the event, which drew participants from nearby schools and neighborhoods. Third year law student Susan Keller '83, a coordinator of the Law School Anti-Apartheid Committee, said the rally was called to protest the state of emergency recently declared in the strife-torn land...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Apartheid Rally Draws 150; A.N.C. Rep. Urges Divestment | 7/30/1985 | See Source »

...official U.S. Government passport. He says, "They identified me as being diplomatic. They saw it as either CIA or FBI." Carlson was beaten severely over a period of 4 1/2 hours. "They started hitting me on the back of the shoulders with an arm of a chair that was torn off." He remained in mortal danger until he managed, with the help of Purser Derickson, to convince the terrorists that he was not "diplomatic" but Army Reserve, with "a wife and a little baby girl." At that point, his tormentor underwent a dramatic change of mood. Declares Carlson: "He walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roach Races and Russian Roulette * | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

Carl Chiarenza shot torn film wrappers to create what one curator described as the only "pure abstract" work of the exhibit. Gary Duehr's Meridian series contains photographs taken intentionally unfocused and the images within them are unrecognizable...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Picture Perfect | 7/9/1985 | See Source »

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